Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity is a set of ethical principles and rules that all participants in the educational and scientific process (students, teachers, researchers, and university administration) must follow.

Key Principles of Academic Integrity:

1. Honesty – absence of cheating, falsification, and manipulation.
2. Fairness – equal conditions for all participants in the educational process.
3. Transparency – clear and understandable assessment criteria, availability of information on academic integrity rules.
4. Responsibility – everyone is responsible for their own actions and their consequences.
5. Trust – creating an open environment for learning and research.
6. Respect for Intellectual Property – compliance with copyright and proper citation.

What Is Considered a Violation of Academic Integrity?

Plagiarism – using someone else’s texts or ideas without proper citation.
Fabrication – inventing or falsifying data in scientific research.
Falsification – manipulating data or altering research results.
Cheating – using unauthorized materials during tests or exams.
Self-plagiarism – reusing one’s own work without proper reference.
Corruption – bribery, extortion, or offering improper benefits.
Assisting Violations – writing papers or completing tasks on behalf of others.

How to Ensure Academic Integrity?

Use proper citation and referencing.
Complete educational and research tasks independently.
Undergo plagiarism checks.
Follow ethical standards during research and evaluation.
Report violations if they occur.

Why Is It Important?

• Improves the quality of education and scientific research.
• Enhances the reputation of the university and its graduates.
• Helps avoid legal consequences related to copyright infringement.
• Promotes a culture of responsibility and honesty.

Academic integrity is not just a requirement — it is the foundation of quality education and science.

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Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education”

Section V

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Article 16. Quality assurance system in higher education

8) ensuring an effective system for preventing and detecting academic plagiarism in scientific works of higher education institution employees and students;

Section VI

HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS Article 32. Principles of activity, basic rights and obligations of a higher education institution

3. Higher education institutions are obliged to:

1) take measures, including the use of modern technologies, to prevent and detect academic plagiarism in scientific works of academic, research, teaching, and other staff as well as students, and to hold them accountable;

Section XI

SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS Article 69. Intellectual property rights and their protection

6. Higher education institutions shall take measures to prevent academic plagiarism – the publication (in part or in full) of scientific results obtained by others as one’s own and/or the reproduction of published texts of other authors without proper citation.